AIRWOLF DOWN

I was saddened to hear of the death of Jan-Michael Vincent, the star of the Eighties TV show Airwolf.

He also starred in the cult surfer flick Big Wednesday.

I never saw Airwolf but it and its fellow eighties TV fantasy vehicle shows offered an important and exciting sub-genre of collectables that I enjoyed tracking down at car boot sales in the 1990's.

Airwolf, Street Hawk, Knight Rider and Blue Thunder: merchandise from these series included softback TV tie-ins, annuals and Jigsaws. Knight Rider generated toys too but I didn't see any for the others.

One of my earliest toy seller names was Moon Zero Toys and I used to photocopy collages of stuff I had for sale in the early 90's for posting out. 

Here's one such sheet, which included a Street Hawk novel top left as well as other books like Ripcord and Starsky and Hutch. Its faint because it was a watermark for typing over back then.

I also had a neat Blue Thunder hardback. This was about the experimental helicopter. Another was Firefox about a super jet.

Do you have any stuff from these types of 80's TV shows?

Anyways, rest in peace Jan-Michael. Airwolf too.

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UPDATE!

By the power of magic ......

Kid has restored my old Moon Zero Toys sheet to its former glory!

Hey, thanks Kid!